Actions & Approaches to Digital Privacy

What are three main actions or approaches taken to address digital privacy concerns?

1. Industry Self-Regulation

2. Privacy-Enhancing Tools

3. Government Regulation

Explain "Industry Self-Regulation" as an approach to digital privacy.

Companies create and enforce their own privacy rules or standards (e.g., TRUSTe certification indicates a website meets certain privacy practices).

Explain "Privacy-Enhancing Tools" as an approach to digital privacy, with an example.

Technologies users can employ to protect their own privacy (e.g., VPNs - Virtual Private Networks - encrypt internet traffic and mask IP addresses, making online activity harder to track).

Explain "Government Regulation" as an approach to digital privacy, with country examples.

Laws passed by governments to mandate privacy protections (e.g., US (often sectoral) vs. EU (GDPR) (comprehensive, strong individual rights) vs. China (state control)).